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Wii Web Browser (Trial Version) Hits December 22

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UK, December 19, 2006 - Rejoice, citizens of Europe, for Nintendo has revealed that a trial version of its Wii Internet Channel, courtesy of Opera, will be available to download from the Shop Channel starting this Friday, December 22.

Adding Flash-enabled web browsing capabilties to Nintendo's feature-burgeoning console, the trial version of Opera's Wii-specific browser is set to make way for a final version of the software next March. As previously promised, the Internet Channel will be free to all Wii users until the end of June 2007, after which it'll set you back a measly 500 Wii Points.

Scott Hedrick, executive vice president of devices at Opera notes, "Our software brings the power and reach of the Internet to the hottest video game system available. Wii's unique interface adds a new dimension to our browser, making it a useful tool that the whole family will enjoy operating with ease."

Keen-eyed Europeans will probably also have noticed that Nintendo launched its Wii Forecast Channel this morning too. The outlook for the rest of the day is 'moon'.
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EDIT: Apparently the original article wasn't the whole story (stupid IGN). This is a better article.
 
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While this sounds like a cool idea on paper, I can't imagine when I'd ever turn my Wii on just to browse the Internet. Just like I can't imagine when I'd ever turn on my Wii to check the weather.
 
I'd have to agree. The major question here is:

What's the point?
 
I know. Why spend the effort when I have an easily accesible internet? I guess for kids who aren't allowed on their parent's internet though. Lol, I can look up porn on the Wii!

Lol, I remember when I got the PSP and used the Internet Broswer (my computer then sucked).

And, I realized something...the PSP sucks even worse with the internet.
 
Nintendo already explained their point. They expect this to be a family console. For the kids to play the games, for mum and dad to join in, for mum and dad to check the news and weather on it 'cause it's simple, comfy and easy to wear, I mean use and for it to basically act as a console for the whole family to get something out of.

And the thing is, this probably will happen.

But not in the West. In the East, yes. But that's not really how families work in the West.

I'm not bothered. It's not as if you are being FORCED to use it, they're providing it as an extra you can choose to use if you want. Hell, until June you don't even have to pay a penny for it.

If you don't want to use it, don't. It's not going to be the end of the world.
 
I mean...I'll use it because it's there, and there will be times when it'll kind of be convenient...but I really don't see myself on it for any extended periods of time.
 
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It really needs to but improoved though (the weather channel that is) and a keyboard for the browser. I think a presentation layout for surfing the web would be better than on a mouse, yet I think a keyboard is still desired.

I think the other channels can work out well too if its expaned upon and liscensed to (like what ever magazine network does Time, EGM, People and whatever). Or linking up to your local newspaper as a second delivery service (included with your paper bill)

However I think the potential in games is even better. Its already a neat feature in Madden, but image if there was a proper pokemon RPG or animal crossing that used it.
 
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simple, comfy and easy to wear
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Youngster? R/B/Y?

Anyway, feature in Madden? Are you saying if it's raining in you're local area, it's raining on the game?
 
Why?

The weather feature was neat for all of 2 seconds, if there was a way to delete it to get more room on the flash memory I'd do it in a heartbeat.
 
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Youngster? R/B/Y?

Anyway, feature in Madden? Are you saying if it's raining in you're local area, it's raining on the game?
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The weather in the stadiums in real life happen in the games. So if it rains in St. Luis it rains in St. Luis in the game, or if it snows in New York, Sunny in Texas, etc.

Its kind of neat. However in Pokemon, they could use the numbers to randomize weather in the game world, or map it to your town (or closest one). Same for Animal Crossing. Animal Crossing also could feed nintendo news into an ingame news paper.

Also, the Wii Gardening game I wanted would be nice if it had weather synced to the real world.

I've always wanted at least random weather in Pokemon games, but I don't know... though I swear it must have random weather in Diamond and Pearl because I remember it raining in an area where it doesn't normally, but I could be mistaken.

Its really neat, and because of how nintendo set it up, it'd be free for developers to use.
 
I'm using the browser right now to type this. Though novel, I'll only use it when my brother is on the main comp. Typing is slow, but there are auto words. 5min to write this.
 
Bulbagarden was the first site I checked out when I tested the Internet channel on my Wii earlier. It's neat, but I'll stick to surfing from my computer.

Although, while typing 'Bulbagarden' into Google, I was surprised to see 'Bulbasaur' come up as an auto word. Pretty neat.
 
ouch 200 something blocks... *delete*


I doubt the Forecast Channel takes up enough memory to even be a nuissance...

- Not when NES games are 90 blocks for some unkown reason...
 
DP has random weather on one route only, the one East of the Safari Zone. It can be either normal or raining. Worse than RS, where one route could be normal, raining, or stormy.

When do we get some Widgets?
 
The browser's pretty cool, but I'll likely only use it to look at YouTube vidoes on my TV.

I wonder if Nintendo's going to get around to releasing a keyboard for the Wii?
 
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